IF NOT, WHY NOT?

The long pilgrimage which the class of 1918 is about to complete from the commodius palaces on the Charles to the historic piles of the Yard is an appropriate symbol of the progress of the class itself through College. Three years ago the Freshman dormitories were a novel experiment, as new and untried as the men who then occupied them for the first time. These dignified and seasoned Juniors, already pressing close on the heels of the retiring class of 1917, are now about to follow the well-established precedent of choosing homes for themselves in the Yard. Housed beneath the ancient roofs that have sheltered many generations of Harvard men, and surrounded by groups of old and well-tried friendships, they may round out the last and pleasantest year of their college life. After a separation of two years, old friendships will be renewed. The process of unification and good-fellowship among the members of the Class of 1918, so auspiciously begun in the dormitories on the river, will then be brought to a successful conclusion.

The Senior dormitories are Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Thayer and Matthews, neither Weld nor Grays being included. The five former are all as liveable and attractive as hallowed associations and modern ingenuity can make them, and there is no excuse for avoiding them on the ground of a hypersensitive devotion to unnecessary luxuries. The 1918 Senior Dormitory Committee may well inquire of those recalcitrants who hesitate to follow the other members of the class in their pilgrimage to the Yard, "If not, why not?"